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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Police officers shot at while moving headless corpse

Police officers shot at while moving headless corpse

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News
Network): Two police officers were shot at while attempting to move the
body of a beheaded person at the village of Salubanga in Sausu, Parigi
Moutong, Central Sulawesi on Monday.

Parigi Moutong Police chief Zulham Efendi Lubis suspected members of
the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) in Poso, Central Sulawesi, to be
behind both the shooting of the officers and the murder.

The MIT is a terrorist group led by Ali Kalora.The wounded officers are being treated at the Bhayangkara Hospital in Palu, Central Sulawesi.

The shooting happened as a team of investigators was heading to the scene to retrieve the headless corpse.Two of the four bullets that were shot hit chief Brig. Andrew Maha
Putra, an officer with the Mobile Brigade Task Force 3 for Operation
Tinombala, while the two others hit Brig. Dua Baso, an intelligence unit
officer from the Parigi Moutong Police.

The two officers had reportedly been clearing the road of branches
and twigs police believe had been put there by the suspects in an
attempt to block the investigation."The two of them had to get off their motorcycle to clear the road
out, so that the police could pass through. Suddenly, they were shot and
hit in the shoulder and buttocks," Zulham said.The officers that were behind them immediately shot back toward the
mountainside while evacuating the injured officers to the nearest
community health center.

Police have yet to find out who was behind the murder and police
shooting and to establish their motives. – The Jakarta Post/Asia News
Network